Horton Foote (1916–2009)
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Horton Foote was born in Wharton, Texas on March 14, 1916. He studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse in California for two years before going to New York and joining Mary Hunter's American Actors Company. While there, he wrote a one-act play called Wharton Dance. After that, he continued to mostra altro pursue acting and appeared in a few other plays, but primarily focused on writing. After World War II, he moved to Washington D. C. to run the King Smith School with Vincent Donehue. While he was there, he opened the King Smith Theater to all races, the first integrated audiences in the nation's capital. In addition to plays, he wrote for television and film. He was one of the writers for The Gabby Hayes Show on NBC. He wrote numerous plays including The Chase, The Carpetbagger's Children, and The Orphans' Home. He wrote numerous screenplays for movies including Baby, the Rain Must Fall and The Trip to Bountiful. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Young Man from Atlanta and two Academy Awards for To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies. He died on March 4, 2009 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Courtesy of the Pulitzer Prizes.
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Opere di Horton Foote
Courtship, Valentine's Day, 1918: Three Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle (Foote, Horton) (1986) 69 copie
Three Screenplays: To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies and The Trip to Bountiful (Foote, Horton) (1989) 51 copie
Roots in a Parched Ground, Convicts, Lily Dale, The Widow Claire: Four Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle (1962) 48 copie
Getting Frankie Married -- And Afterwards, and Other Plays (Horton Foote Collected Works Volume III) (1999) 20 copie
Three Plays: Dividing the Estate, The Trip to Bountiful, and The Young Man from Atlanta (2008) 10 copie
1918 [1985 film] — Screenwriter — 4 copie
Convicts 3 copie
The tears of my sister ; The prisoner's song ; The one-armed man ; and, The land of the astronauts (1993) 3 copie
On Valentine's Day [DVD] 1 copia
Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow 1 copia
Tender mercies : screenplay 1 copia
On Valentine's Day [movie] 1 copia
Courtship: Revised 1 copia
Courtship [DVD] 1 copia
Four New Plays 1988-1993 1 copia
Roots In A Parched Ground 1 copia
Three plays: [Old man, Tomorrow 1 copia
Courtship Valentines Day 1918 1 copia
Tender mercies 1 copia
The Best short plays, 1988-1989 1 copia
The Trip to Bountiful 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Foote, Albert Horton, Jr.
- Data di nascita
- 1916-03-14
- Data di morte
- 2009-03-04
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Wharton City Cemetery, Wharton, Texas
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Wharton, Texas, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Wharton, Texas, USA
Harford, Connecticut, USA - Istruzione
- Pasadena Playhouse School of Theatre
Tamara Darkarhovna School of Theatre - Attività lavorative
- playwright
screenwriter
actor
teacher - Relazioni
- Foote, Daisy (daughter)
Foote, Shelby (cousin)
Masterson, Peter (cousin) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1998])
Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
Writers Guild of America
Authors Guild
Dramatists Guild
Texas Institute of Letters - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama (2000)
National Medal of Arts (2000)
Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement (2003)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1995)
William Inge Award for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre (1989)
Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement (1993) (mostra tutto 11)
Evelyn Burkey Award (1989)
Career Achievement Award, Heartland Film Festival (1995)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama for lifetime achievement (1998)
Lifetime Achievement Award, Writer's Guild of America (1999)
Master American Dramatist Award, PEN American Center (2000) - Agente
- Barbara Hogenson Agency, Inc.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 85
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 1,812
- Popolarità
- #14,191
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 15
- ISBN
- 113
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 1